Barnes & Noble is the only bookseller with a fully operational multi-channel strategy – with retail locations from coast to coast and an online subsidiary, Barnes & Noble.com.  In addition to innovations in retailing, Barnes & Noble has also expanded its approach to bookselling and the products it offers through its self-publishing program.

Retail Stores
Barnes & Noble stores average 25,000 square feet and carry up to 200,000 titles. Our stores feature the best service, depth of selection and comfortable settings, including lounge chairs and reading tables.  Open seven days a week, the stores also carry wide selections of music, DVD/video titles and magazines. 

Internet
Barnes & Noble’s online channel, Barnes & Noble.com, offers the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles with access to approximately one million titles for immediate delivery, supplemented by more than 30 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare and used book dealers. Barnes & Noble.com offers its customers fast delivery, easy and secure ordering, and rich editorial content.

Publishing
One of the most exciting developments has been the growth of our own publishing program, which offers books not found elsewhere at prices not matched anywhere.  For example, the new Barnes & Noble Classics line brings back great literary classics some selling for as low as $3.95.  The series, developed with children and the educational community in mind, has been an enormous success.

With the addition of Sterling Publishing which the company acquired in January 2003, Barnes & Noble has publishing or distribution rights to nearly 10,000 titles. Sterling has an active list of more than 5,000 owned and distributed titles, and annually publishes and distributes more than 1,100 new titles.